February 2009 Archives

The landlord of a historic pub has gone against his bosses and taken down the building's for sale sign.

Chris Garbott, 47, who works in the 400-year-old Vine Inn, in Bridge Road, said he is so fed up with the owner's of the pub Enterprise Inns promises that they are going to take the sign down, so he went and got a ladder on Tuesday February 24.

With the final of Masterchef 2009 being aired on Thursday February 26, I spoke to one of last year's finalists.

Emily Ludolf, 20, from Lyne Lane, Lyne, has done a lot with her life.

She got offered a place at Oxford University two years ago, has made a films, written a play, and came runner-up in last year's Masterchef final hosted by John Torode and Gregg Wallace.

Women's World Day of Prayer will be celebrated at St Peter's Church Monday 6.

The same day women from the area will sit down and pray at 11.30am, along with three million people worldwide, using a service prepared by Christian women in Papa New Guinea.

The speaker will be Captain Hilary McClintock from Addlestone Salvation Army, and all are welcome.

Proposed council tax levels for the next financial year have been cut after a last minute decision by Runnymede Council's leader.

Cllr for Addlestone Bourneside John Furey made a speech at a special council meeting on Thursday February 12 where he proposed to cut the tax for a Band D property from £133.11 to £132.93.

Wing mirror attacks on cars in two Chertsey roads on Thursday February 12 have shocked residents.

Nine incidents of criminal damage were reported to Surrey Police between 9.30pm and 10.00pm in Stepgates and Fordwater Road.

POLICE have renewed their appeal into the death of two horses and six foals in a 'suspicious' fire in December.

On Sunday December 7 2008 the animals died at an outbuilding in a field in Green Lane, Chertsey, and Surrey Police have been looking for potential perpetrators.
No arrests have been made, and there are currently no suspects, and Police are keen to find out what happened.

Restoration work at St Peter's Shared Church in Chertsey has got at least £13,500 more expensive after a flag pole was found to be rotting from the inside out.

Malcolm Loveday, chairman of the Chertsey Society conservation group, said the pole's condition only came to light when steeplejacks climbed up the historic church in Windsor Street to remove a 50kg weathervane for restoration.

Celebrity chef Rick Stein will be flicking through the pages of the Surrey Herald in the new series of the BBC television show Who Do You Think You Are.

Stein, who owns a chain of restaurants in Cornwall and regularly presents his own cooking programmes, will be tracing his family tree during the geneology show on Monday February 16.

A woman in her 80s collapsed at her home in Chertsey on Thursday February 5 after suffering breathing difficulties.

Paramedics were called shortly after 8.30am to the house in Free Prae Road, by a relative of the patient.

She was taken to St Peter's Hospital in Chertsey by ambulance.

A semi-retired painter and decorator is calling on estate agents to stop nailing for sale signs on Chertsey's historic buildings.

Ralph Rendall, who lives in a listed building in Abbey Green, is calling on Runnymede Council to enforce the law, after saying 'for sale' signs posted on old buildings in Windsor Street and Guildford Street among others are causing them to deteriorate.